Checkrein attachment.



PATENTED JULY 26, 1904.

W. M. WRIGHT.

GHBCKREIN ATTACHMENT.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 27. 1904.

H0 MODEL.

fiwerzilioz" UNITED STATES Patented July 26, 1904.

l/VALTER M. WRIGHT, OF CHOPTANK, MARYLAND.

CHECKREIN ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,092, dated July 26, 1904.

Application filed February 27, 1904. Serial No. 195,538. No model.)

To (all who'm/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, (VALTER M. WVRIGHT, of Choptank, in the county of Caroline and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Checkrein Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, in common with others of its class, relates to means whereby a certain elasticity is imparted to the checkrein at a point where the same connects or unites with the water-hook; and it consists in the devices hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the description of the said invention which follows reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which I Figure 1 is a view of a part of a harnesssaddle with its water-hook and a checkrein, which latter embraces the devices forming the subject-matter of the present invention; and Fig. 2, a top view of the same.

Referringnow to the drawings, 1 is the harness-saddle, and 2 the water-hook secured thereto.

3 represents the checkrein.

a is a spring or elastic extensible device consisting of a piece of spring-wire which is first coiled into a spiral and then bent so as to form an annulus and its ends fastened together.

5 is a tab formed of a strip of leather bent or folded around the annulus at the point where its ends are connected and the extensions brought together and sewed, as shown particularly in Fig. 2 of the drawings, in which the rows of stitches are indicated by 7 The tab near its end is provided with a hole 9 to admit of its attachment to the waterhook 2.

The checkrein passes through the annulus and is free to be moved therein as the horse turns his head from one side to the other.

The annulus formed as described is quite flexible, due to the great length of wire required in its formation, is susceptible of considerable extension, and it readily assumes its original shape when strain on the checkrein is removed.

I have shown and described what appears to me the best method of embodying the principle of the spring-annulus in the checkrein; but it is evident that there are numerous other ways of adapting that device as ameans of producing resilience in a checkrein, and I do not, therefore, confine myself to the manner described of its adaption to the purpose for which it is used.

I claim as my invention In combination with the water-hook of a harness-saddle, and the looped end of a checkrein, a resilient extensible connection for the same, which consists of a coiled spring bent into the form of an annulus with its ends connected, and a tab which is folded around the connected ends of the said annulus and sewed, the same having ahole within the sewed portion, adapted to pass loosely over the said waterhook, substantially as, and for the purpose specified.

WALTER M. WRIGHT. i/Vitnesses:

K. M. NORTHRUP, R. LEE GLovER. 

